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Collaboration on Heart Failure Research and Nurse Education
Collaboration on Heart Failure Research and Nurse Education
Two professors from Linköping University in Sweden visited the School of Nursing and Midwifery and the Health Services Research Unit last week to develop collaborative work in relation to heart failure research and nurse education. The School of Nursing and Midwifery, the Faculty of Health and Institute for Social Sciences supported the visit by Professors Anna Strömberg and Tiny Jaarsma, heart failure nurse specialists who have led and contributed to several multicentre trials in relation to education, support and self-care management of cardiac patients and their families in Europe.
The Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) at Keele is host to a programme of research investigating heart failure and comorbidity. This programme is led by Dr Umesh Kadam and the visitors were introduced to current and prospective projects that span primary and hospital care. These projects are linked into current service developments at the University Hospital including: prognosis in heart failure (Claire Rushton), the evaluation of ambulatory care for heart failure patients (SHINE project led by Dr Dargoi Satchi and James Rushton), discharge planning for patients with heart failure and lung disease (CoMMandD study) and a cardio-renal study (Professor Simon Davies).
Discussions with the School of Nursing (Pauline Walsh and Wynne Thomas) and HSRU also included the development of heart failure and multimorbidity education at Keele and internationally (Claire Rushton). This was a highly successful visit that has resulted in key future Keele-Linköping collaborations on education, clinical practice and nursing research.
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